As if the Burger King isn't creepy enough all on his own, now you can smell like him. I'm still hoping this perfume is a joke. It's called Flame, and for a mere $3.99, you can smell like "the scent of seducti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/17/now-you-too-can-smell-like-a-whopper/Heath and Deborah Campbell wanted a birthday cake for their son, but a local supermarket refused their order because of the boy's name: Adolf Hitler!Deborah Campbell, 25, of nearby Hunterdon County, N.J., said she ph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/17/adolf-hitler-gets-no-love-or-cake/Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy blog has selected his ten favorite astronomy pictures from the year 2008. His descriptions are as entertaining as the pictures! This one shows spiral galaxy NGC 7331, which is about 50 milli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/17/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2008/The website for Laika's upcoming movie Coraline is once again active with more than making of featurettes. Spend some time exploring Coraline's house and you'll find clips from the movie, desktop wallpapers, posters...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/17/explore-the-coraline-site/Mr. Bill and his fam celebrate the holidays, too... as you can imagine, his holidays are slightly more violent than ours. With special guest appearance by Father Guido Sarducci! LinkChristmas, Video, stacy, mr bi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/17/christmas-with-the-bills/I was going to call it a night when I decided to check one more link. I'm so glad I did because that's when I ran across this amazing papercraft artwork by Russian artist Yulia Brodskaya. Her website is a little bit slow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/17/yulia-brodskayas-papercraft/Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has given out almost all of the first $350 billion of the $700 billion bailout fund, and the economy continued to slide down - so where did all those money go? Mike Madden of Salon.com fin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/17/dude-wheres-my-700-billion/Frank Gilberti thought that his traffic ticket was "non-cents." He noticed that the Bloomfield, New Jersey, municipal court accepts cash to pay the fine, so he decided to pay with real cents: $56 in pennies!Tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/17/dont-mess-with-new-jersey-paying-with-pennies-got-man-into-trouble/The new Palazzo Versace hotel in Dubai wants to provide every luxury to its guests. The latest planned innovation is a refrigerated beach! The beach will have a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/17/refrigerated-beach/The subway entrances in Toulouse, France are adorned with modern pixel art! Each station is different. I particularly like this Tetris station entrance. See more at Fubiz. http://www.fubiz.net/blog/index.php?2008/12/16...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/17/metro-art/I can't sit still. Like, pretty much ever. I can sit still in a movie theater if I have to, but if I'm sitting at home watching TV or something, I can't just sit. Which is probably why I blog. Anyway, my...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/make-your-own-gift-bows/A prisoner in a German jail remains at large after placing himself inside a box destined for courier pickup. Trucks arrive at this jail weekly to pick up products made in its workshop, and the prisoner apparently took a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/prisoner-escapes-jail-by-mailing-himself-out-in-a-box/Photo: Geoff Pingree / National Geographic Traveler Photo ContestW00t! It's time for Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey game - but first, here's the story behind the photo, titled "Behold". It's the Grand...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/caption-monkey-53-prado-museum/Our pals at Tokyoflash is famous for their wonderfully geeky watches, usually made out of metal and plastic.Now, for the first time ever, they've released a new line of watches, the Tokyoflash Waku, that incorporate natu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/tokyoflashs-furry-watch/Twingly, the spam-free Swedish blog search engine, has released its list of the Top 100 blogs in the world and Neatorama made it! (We're no. 35)Twingly groups the blogs it follows by language - so if you don't write in E...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/twingly-top-100-blogs/Why do we yawn? Andrew Gallup, a researcher at Bingham University, explained that we yawn to prevent our brains from overheating:If your head is overheated, there's a good chance you'll yawn soon, according to a new...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/why-we-yawn-to-cool-the-brain/V838 Monocerotis - NASA/ESA via HubblesiteAlan Taylor of Boston Globe's The Big Picture Blog, one of the neatest blogs around on the Web, has a truly neat post about the most amazing images captured by the Hubble Space T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/the-light-echo-of-v838-monocerotis-and-other-amazing-images-by-the-hubble-space-telescope/Carl of theWAREHOUSE blog sent us his latest creation: he gutted a ho-hum "inspirational gift" snowglobe and made it awesome by placing a little Tony Montana (Al Pacino) of Scarface sitting on his desk piled hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/the-scarface-snowglobe/I'm always surprised at the inventiveness of LEGO builders. Just when I thought I'd seen 'em all, comes a new amazing creation. Take this working LEGO safe, for instance. It's built with LEGO Mindstorms NXT. It has a fiv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/lego-safe/Your trusty iPhone can help you get through the holiday season, whether you use it for entertainment, information, or for getting along with annoying relatives. Mental_floss has ten recommendations for iPhone applicati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/10-iphone-apps-to-help-you-survive-the-holidays/(YouTube link) What are all those microwave ovens for? Watch and find out! From digital agency AKQA. -via Viral Video Chart AKQA, microwave, jingle bells...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/christmas-greetings-from-akqa/A woman can usually tell if her husband, boyfriend, or son wrapped a Christmas gift himself or had the store do it. Not anymore! A British shop will specially wrap a gift badly, so it appears the buyer attempted to give...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/crapwrap/Egyptologists worked for over a year to produce a digital 3D recreation of the face of Cleopatra, using ancient artifacts combined with modern imaging technology. The result is a beautiful face of mixed ethnicity. *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/the-real-face-of-cleopatra/Everyone seems to be enjoying the Christmas Special posts, so I thought I'd try to make it a daily thing until the big day. Here's David Bowie and Bing Crosby dueting on Little Drummer Boy. It's a surprisingly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/bing-crosby-and-david-bowie-sing-little-drummer-boy/The following is reprinted from Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom Reader CSI's Gil Grissom - via Wikipedia FAMILIAR FORMULA If there were no cops, prosecutors or defense atto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/the-csi-effect/Xylocopa addresses a serious deficiency in mad science education today: Like many of you, we are concerned about the state of science education in the public school system, especially in the lower grades. Spec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/15/alphabet-blocks-for-young-mad-scientists/(Video Link) The pilot of this radio controlled helicopter is a good shot. I can immediately think of several ways that I could use this toy, none of which are legal. Via Geekologie helicopters, radio control, fire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/15/rc-helicopter-with-a-45-pistol-attached/A perfect last-minute gift, I think. Take someone's favorite childhood book, convert to a clock, and voila! And thanks to this Instructable, you even have step-by-step instructions on how to do it. The creator has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/15/how-to-make-a-literary-clock/Hooray! I'm excited to tell you that we have a new feature on Neatorama, a Forum that we hope will be a neat place to hang out and interact with fellow Neatorama readers.Unlike the blog, which as a top-down approach (aut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/15/neatorama-forum/To kick start the new Neatorama forum, I've written a little how-to guide on blogging for those of you who want to know the secret of Neatorama's success:So you want to blog. Perhaps you're worried about your job sec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/15/so-you-wanna-blog/
